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No-Fee Symyx Draw For academic and home use. Students, teachers, and researchers in an academic setting can now transition from industry-leading ISIS/Draw to Symyx Draw with minimal effort at no charge while also gaining significant enhancements for rapidly drawing chemical structures and chemically intelligent queries. http://www.symyx.com/micro/getdraw/

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease RegistryThe Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ATSDR serves the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and diseases related to toxic substances.
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

Science AcceleratorScience Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available by OSTI as a free public service.
http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/

World chemical outlookC&EN's 2009 forecasts for the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific tell a common story of how economic woes are affecting the chemical industry. Customers, worried about future demand, are delaying purchases and drawing down their inventories. In response, chemical manufacturers are cutting back production, shutting or idling plants, and in many cases, laying off workers.http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/87/8702cover.html

More about ChempediaAntony Williams of ChemSpider (www.chemspider.com), who’s also an active participant on Wikipedia Chemistry, has commented about our coverage of Chempedia on Issue #101 of the ChemIndustry.com newsletter:

"Chempedia is using Wikipedia text for all articles. If a compound monograph is missing from Chempedia then it has either not been extracted from Wikipedia (and there are examples of this…there are chemistry articles on Wikipedia that are NOT on ChemPedia) or it does not exist on ChemPedia. The compound monographs are not created on ChemPedia…they are created on Wikipedia. The “More then 3200 have contributed to this Wiki site as of Nov. 2008.” Actually are 3200 people contributing to Wikipedia that are then shown on Chempedia."

Joe dieselMano Misra, Susanta Mohapatra, and Narasimharao Kondamudi of the University of Nevada-Reno are hoping that waste coffee grounds could be used to make an environment-friendly vehicle fuel of the future. Every time you have a cup of Joe, those filter dregs are wasted. The Nevada team, however, explain that spent coffee grounds contain between 11 and 20 percent vegetable oil by weight, which is about the same as traditional feedstocks for biofuels including rapeseed, palm, and soybean oil. The researchers are planning to develop a pilot plant to produce and test the experimental fuel in 2009. Waste coffee grounds offer new source of biodiesel fuel

4th Annual SmartLab Exchange, taking place on 2nd - 4th March, 2009 in London is regarded as Europe’s leading meeting for the laboratory informatics community. Don’t miss the opportunity for networking, knowledge exchange and benchmarking with the highest level of experts from top-flight global organizations in the pharmaceutical, FMCG, cosmetic and chemical industries. The meeting is invitation only, so to request the invitation please visit: www.SmartLab.co.uk, call us on +44 (0)207 368 9300 or email: enquire@iqpc.co.uk.

KOREA CHEM 2009, JUNE 2-5, KOREAKOREA CHEM 2009 is the ONLY EXHIBITION in KOREA for Chemical plant/equipment processing, Laboratory, Pharmaceutical/Packaging materials and machinery. KOREA CHEM exhibition will be the best place to initiate or expand your business not only in Korea chemical industry, but also in Asia-pacific. Join Us Now!

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